About ALI Adaptive Tag Libraries

The ALI portal tag libraries include tags to display portal navigation components, portal UI components, and standard UI elements.

Navigation tags in the plugnav library are used with data tags in the ptdata library to build complete custom navigation solutions for the portal. For details, see Implementing Custom Navigation Using Adaptive Tags. AquaLogic Pages and AquaLogic Pathways also include tags to insert components into portal navigation. For details, see Adding Links to Pages LiveSpaces and DataSpaces Using Adaptive Tags and Adding Pathways Search Using Adaptive Tags.

The tags in the ptui library allow you to add standard ALI user interface components to any pagelet, including search inputs and buttons, login components, access to account settings, error messages, and more. Tags from the standard tag library can be used to display instance-specific information, including the date and time and the page name and type. For details, see Implementing Custom UI Elements Using Adaptive Tags.

The standard tag library includes tags for the following purposes:

Links: Build links to almost any portal object, community pages, login pages, or any gatewayed page. You can also set Hosted Display Mode for any gatewayed page. For details, see Building Gatewayed URLs Using Adaptive Tags.
User-Specific Information: Provide user-specific content, leveraging settings and portal permissions. Use conditional statements to secure content based on user or group membership. For details, see Securing Content Based on User Permissions Using Adaptive Tags.
Tree Controls: Create custom selection trees of portal objects. For details, see Creating Tree Controls Using Adaptive Tags.

This package contains most of the tags available in portal version 5.x, previously called "transformer tags." Legacy tags not included in the standard library are provided in the transformer tag library (6.1 and earlier) or the common tag library (ALI 6.1MP1 and above).

In addition to the tags above, ALI pagelets can use the cross-platform tag libraries. For details, see About Cross-Platform Adaptive Tag Libraries.

For a full list of tags and attributes, see the tagdocs. Tagdocs for all platforms are available on the API Libraries page.

Parent topic: About Adaptive Tags

AquaLogic User Interaction Development Guide

About ALI Adaptive Tag Libraries